Membership

Ngataringa garden operates on an allotment system, with around 65 plots allocated to individual or family plot-holders.

We have a communal herb plot and some communal fruit trees on site – bananas, plums, lemons, avocados, custard apples – as well as chickens, with eggs available for sale to members.

We have a wide range of facilities on-site that are available for all members to use, including:

• A function room with kitchen facilities;
• Toilets;
• Hot-house;
• Tool-shed and large garden tools.

The garden is overseen by a committee, and we hold our AGM in April.

We also hold special meetings, working bees (between two and four times per year), and social events (held irregularly but always includes a Christmas event).

The primary purposes of the Society are to:

• encourage organic gardening for healthy living and wellbeing within the local community
• provide facilities, resources and land for members to further their organic gardening practices
• promote community gardens and organic gardening within the wider community
• improve biodiversity and soil health to allow organic gardening to thrive
• foster collegiality and cooperation expressed in the tikanga of “OUR garden is more than YOUR plot”
• operate in a not-for-profit manner.